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Teaching GK Questions 2026

General knowledge is not a named section of any CTET paper, but part of it sits inside two subjects. As per the CTET-September 2026 bulletin, Environmental Studies in Paper I has 30 questions: 15 on content and 15 on pedagogical issues. Its content themes are Family and Friends, Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, and Things We Make and Do. In Paper II, Social Studies/Social Science has 60 questions: 40 on History, Geography and Social and Political Life, and 20 on pedagogy. Science in Paper II has 20 content questions on food, materials, the world of the living, how things work, natural phenomena and natural resources. All of these follow the NCERT syllabus. GK24's topic-wise GK notes cover geography, Indian history, Indian polity, general science, and environment and ecology, in English and Hindi. In GK24's guidance, they help you revise facts after reading the NCERT chapter, not in place of it. They do not cover Child Development and Pedagogy, the languages, Mathematics or the pedagogy questions, which together make up most of each paper. The CTET page of this section holds the GK notes GK24 marks for CTET. State TETs set their own syllabus, so check the one you plan to take before relying on this mapping.

Teaching GK Questions with Answers

Q261.NationalMedium

Within how many days of the Official Gazette copies reaching the public may stakeholders file objections to the FSSAI draft on infant nutrition?

  1. A.30 days
  2. B.45 days
  3. C.60 days
  4. D.90 days
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Correct answer: C. 60 days

The notification on sucrose and fructose in infant foods has been published as a draft for public consultation, and objections as well as suggestions from stakeholders are invited within sixty days of the date on which copies of the Official Gazette carrying it are made available to the public.

Q262.NationalMedium

The FSSAI draft amendment of 2026 modifies which parent regulations on foods for infant nutrition?

  1. A.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2011
  2. B.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2016
  3. C.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2020
  4. D.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2024
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Correct answer: C. Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2020

These are the parent rules that the new draft, styled the Amendment Regulations of 2026, sets out to edit.

Q263.NationalEasy

Which two sugars does the FSSAI draft amendment propose to keep out of products meant for infants up to six months of age?

  1. A.Lactose and maltose
  2. B.Sucrose and fructose
  3. C.Glucose polymers and lactose
  4. D.Sorbitol and mannitol
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Correct answer: B. Sucrose and fructose

The draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2026, which reached the Gazette of India on 16 October 2026, proposes that these two sugars not be added to any product intended for an infant up to the age of six months.

Q264.General ScienceHard

How many pairs of cranial nerves and spinal nerves are there in the human body?

  1. A.10 cranial and 33 spinal
  2. B.12 cranial and 31 spinal
  3. C.12 cranial and 33 spinal
  4. D.31 cranial and 12 spinal
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Correct answer: B. 12 cranial and 31 spinal

Twelve pairs of cranial nerves arise from the brain and serve the head and neck, among them the optic nerve of sight, the auditory nerve of hearing and the vagus, the longest cranial nerve, which reaches the heart and the abdomen; thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves arise from the spinal…

Q266.General ScienceMedium

Which is the largest endocrine gland in the human body?

  1. A.Thyroid
  2. B.Pituitary
  3. C.Adrenal
  4. D.Parathyroid
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Correct answer: A. Thyroid

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck, in front of the windpipe, and is the largest of the ductless or endocrine glands; it secretes thyroxine, for which iodine is essential, and the hormone controls the rate of metabolism, growth and development.

Q268.General ScienceMedium

Insulin in the human body is secreted by:

  1. A.The alpha cells of the islets of Langerhans
  2. B.The beta cells of the islets of Langerhans
  3. C.The adrenal cortex
  4. D.The anterior lobe of the pituitary
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Correct answer: B. The beta cells of the islets of Langerhans

The islets of Langerhans are patches of endocrine tissue in the pancreas, and their beta cells secrete insulin, which lowers the level of glucose in the blood by helping cells take it up and by storing the surplus as glycogen; a lack of insulin causes diabetes mellitus.

Q270.General ScienceMedium

Human blood groups were discovered by:

  1. A.William Harvey
  2. B.Karl Landsteiner
  3. C.Robert Koch
  4. D.Edward Jenner
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Correct answer: B. Karl Landsteiner

The Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner discovered the A, B and O blood groups in 1901 and received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for the work; he was also associated with the discovery of the Rh factor, named after the rhesus monkey.

Q271.General ScienceMedium

What is the average life span of a red blood cell in the human body?

  1. A.About 10 days
  2. B.About 60 days
  3. C.About 120 days
  4. D.About 365 days
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Correct answer: C. About 120 days

Red blood cells are produced in the red bone marrow, lose their nucleus on maturing and survive roughly four months, after which they are broken down in the spleen, which is accordingly called the graveyard of red blood cells; the iron released from their haemoglobin is used again.

Q272.General ScienceMedium

Which structure is called the pacemaker of the human heart?

  1. A.Atrio-ventricular node
  2. B.Sino-atrial node
  3. C.Bundle of His
  4. D.Purkinje fibres
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Correct answer: B. Sino-atrial node

The sino-atrial node is a small patch of specialised muscle tissue in the wall of the right atrium near the opening of the superior vena cava, and it generates the impulse that sets the rate of each heartbeat without any outside stimulus, which is why it is called the pacemaker.

Q273.General ScienceEasy

Which is the largest gland in the human body?

  1. A.Thyroid
  2. B.Pancreas
  3. C.Liver
  4. D.Pituitary
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Correct answer: C. Liver

The liver weighs about one and a half kilograms and is both the largest gland and the largest internal organ of the body; it secretes bile, stores glycogen, iron and vitamin A, converts ammonia into urea and detoxifies drugs and poisons.

Q275.General ScienceEasy

Which is the smallest bone in the human body?

  1. A.Stapes
  2. B.Malleus
  3. C.Incus
  4. D.Hyoid
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Correct answer: A. Stapes

The stapes, shaped like a stirrup, is the innermost of the three ossicles of the middle ear and is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring only a few millimetres; the smallest muscle of the body, the stapedius, is attached to it.

Q278.Summits & ConferencesEasy

ITRA, Jamnagar, which observed its sixth Foundation Day as ITRA Day, is the first institute of which system of medicine to be granted the status of Institute of National Importance?

  1. A.Ayurveda
  2. B.Yoga and Naturopathy
  3. C.Homoeopathy
  4. D.Unani
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Correct answer: A. Ayurveda

The Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda at Jamnagar is the first institute in the field of Ayurveda to be given the status of an Institute of National Importance, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated it to the nation on 15 October 2020.

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